Memories Come Flooding Back

Recently, I was driving home from bowling practice, listening to the radio.  Out of nowhere, I got this overwhelming sense that I should be going to combo practice that I was a part of the last two years.  Or that I was supposed to be going to a place that I used to go after practice a lot last year to study.  The weird thing about it was that the place that I used to go has been closed since March, and I'm not in combo anymore.  I was trying to figure out why I had that feeling, knowing that I had nothing to do.  I was trying to think if I had something that I had to do, or someplace that I had to be.

That's when I realized that I was singing along to the song "Counting Stars" by One Republic.  I hadn't heard this song in a long time, but I used to hear it almost daily, mostly when I was driving home from bowling practice.  I realized that I was back into my old routine, and it felt no different than before, even after a year of time had passed.  I then got to thinking, and this made me realize that this happens to ma a lot.  I hear a song that I used to hear in an old routine, or that I used to listen to all the time, and suddenly I'm back in that time of my life.

It also makes me remember things that happened in those time.  I was recently cleaning my room, and I had my phone connected to speakers, listening to music while I worked.  I will admit to having a lot of really old music on my phone, and I'm not even going to try to make up an excuse.  I do have moods that I will enjoy listening to old Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, groups form my childhood.  Some of these songs were playing, and I was reminded of so many different times and memories of when I was young.

I feel as though this happens to everyone.  Some odd sense of Deja Vu, or randomly being reminded of memories of childhood.  As I have discussed before, music creates memory hooks.  But sometimes the memory hooks just jump back at us.  We feel like we are back in a time, and we go back to that routine, or try to.  This could be a good thing, or a bad thing, and sometimes just simply strange.  Personally, I like when this happens.  It shows me how far I have come in life, and that I still have places to go.